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  • if the number you registered with eventually gets recycled to someone who then uses it for Signal, will that affect your account?

  • I saw a really good rundown of this the other day on YouTube: "Presented by Joe Botting, independent palaeontologist and Honorary Research Fellow at the National Museum Wales":

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqT8Q8plKJ8

  • Apparently Russia has been using (or still is using?) drones to kill/maim civilians in Kherson. That's what I'm really on about - using drones & drone swarms to target normal people going about their day-to-day lives. It's just really hard to defend against, and is only going to get worse as the tech progresses.

  • a machine capable of running Wasteland 2

    Is there even such a machine on God's good earth? It's definitely a good game, but absolutely blighted by instability & CTDs last time I tried it a few years ago.

  • think what absolute chaos could be wrought if a terrorist group were to release a swarm like this in a large city

  • I remember reading about the world's oldest person at the time some years ago - French woman of 120 - she said her secret was eating 200 grams of chocolate a day. She also said she smoked for 30 years, starting when she was in her 60s and quitting when she hit 100.

  • Where do I purchase whatever this guy was smoking?

  • Excuse my lack of sympathy for these politicians outraged about another government snooping on their private business via their phones, given how eager they are to do exactly that to everybody in the EU.

  • I wonder what difference it makes when the user isn't using English. They don't mention that they aren't considering this and don't mention it on their How it Works page, but they do in the paper's abstract: "Finally, our focus on English-language prompts overlooks the additional biases that may emerge in other languages."

    They do also reference a study by another team that does show differences in bias based on input language which concludes, "Our experiments on several LLMs show that incorporating perspectives from diverse languages can in fact improve robustness; retrieving multilingual documents best improves response consistency and decreases geopolitical bias"

    The subject of how and what type of bias is captured by LLMs is a pretty interesting subject that's definitely worthy of analysis. Personally I do feel they should more prominently highlight that they're just looking at English language interactions; it feels a bit sensationalist/click-baity at the moment and I don't think they can reasonably imply that LLMs are inherently biased towards "male, white, and Western" values just yet.

  • You're stretching it - it's not highway robbery when you catch someone driving a car with fake plates and smuggled goods in the back

  • I presume that's the owner's name lol

  • I never knew LLMs can run on such low-spec machines now! That's amazing. You said elsewhere you're using Qwen3-4B (abliterated), and I found a page saying that there are Qwen3 models that will run on "Virtually any modern PC or Mac; integrated graphics are sufficient. Mobile phones"

    Is there still a big advantage to using Nvidia GPUs? Is your card Nvidia?

    My home machine that I've installed ollama on (and which I can't access in the immediate future) has an AMD card, but I'm now toying with putting it on my laptop, which is very midrange and has Intel Arc graphics (which performs a whole lot better than I was expecting in games)

  • At first blush, this looks great to me. Are there limitations with what models it will work with? In particular, can you use this on a lightweight model that will run in 16 Gb RAM to prevent it hallucinating? I've experimented a little with running ollama as an NPC AI for Skyrim - I'd love to be able to ask random passers-by if they know where the nearest blacksmith is for instance. It was just far too unreliable, and worse it was always confidently unreliable.

    This sounds like it could really help these kinds of uses. Sadly I'm away from home for a while so I don't know when I'll get a chance to get back on my home rig.

  • Saying "After 2 years with college professors" seems creepy to me, like he thinks college professors are supposed to take over the parents' role.

  • Sorry state of affairs that Jews don't feel safe in the UK! Let's hope the government can do something to change this.

  • Oh right! I did see the name on the side yeah. Is that a famous historical cartoonist then? Do they often include quirky details like those horse's eyes?

  • Did you draw this? It's super cool, I'm envious of your talents! Why though did you give the horses those crazy outlandish eyes? Everything else is a quite realistic style and then there's the horses with these hilarious muppet style eyes!

  • Did she say how often they went up there? I'd be worried my cat would just stay up there all the time and I'd never get any cuddles